"Adrian" wrote in message
. 1.4...

Sacrilege.

Why can't they fly the poor ol' sod, and give a few more people a last
look?

This particular Concorde (G-BOAA) has not flown since August 2000 and does
not have a certificate of airworthiness. It was one of two that were not
modified (the other is Alpha Bravo, which is now on display adjacent to one
of the departure taxiways at Heathrow) with Kevlar fuel tank liners, to
prevent a repeat of the Gonesse disaster, or with the new specification
tyres and which had been robbed for spares over the last three years. Of
less significance, they were also not modified internally or refurbished as
G-BOAC/D/E/F & G were. Plans were in progress, allegedly, for this work to
take place (and to return BA to a seven flying Concorde fleet) and for the
second daily New York flight to be reinstated, just prior to Airbus pulling
the plug on maintenance and Air France throwing in the towel. The costs
associated with making the airframe flightworthy for a one-way ferry flight
would have been too astronomic to contemplate.